Accreditation

MUMBAI: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has received accreditation for its PGPEX and PGP programmes by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for five years. This accreditation helps benchmark the programmes globally, which not only contributes to IIM-C students getting better recognition abroad but also helps attract foreign students and tie-ups with leading international B-schools. Andrew Main Wilson, AMBA's chief executive said in a release: "AMBA accredits just 1% of the...

NEW DELHI: Scores of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers today staged a protest here alleging that the government has been insensitive to their demands including regularisation as government employees and fixation of minimum wages. A five-member delegation, led by Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) convener Ranjana Narula, met Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J P Nadda and submitted a memorandum detailing the...

MUMBAI: Venus Remedies Ltd's recently set up facility has received Zimbabwe GMP certification having cleared another inspection by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe. The facilities have been found suitable for storage, production, packaging and quality control as per the GMP norms of MCA of Zimbabwe. This will now facilitate the product registration process in Zimbabwe, a notice to the BSE said. Venus Remedies has got two of its specialty products...

PUNE: You hear it at every seminar, meeting and a brain storming session that people are an organisation's most valuable asset. Followed immediately by the despair, over attracting and then retaining that asset. In a move to professionalise and give accreditation to human resource (HR) professionals, the National Human Resource Development network (NHRD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the CII and the XLRI, Jamshedpur, for an accreditation process. This...

VADODARA: The Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) has asked all its state councils in the country to cancel registration of homoeopaths who practise allopathy. "The CCH had issued a notice stating that Homoeopathic Practitioners (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Code of Ethics) Regulations, 1982, have been amended as notified in the official gazette dated July 12, 2014, which is required to be strictly adhered to by all registered...

NEW DELHI: To speed up the process, the government has relaxed norms for commodity exchanges towards registration and accreditation of warehouses with regulator Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA). In the wake of the payment crisis at the National Spot Exchange (NSEL), commodity markets regulator Forward Markets Commission (FMC) in a circular on August 30 last year had made it mandatory for all warehouses to register and get accredited with WDRA. ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been accredited by the Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), becoming the first South Asian entity to receive the prestigious accreditation. US-headquartered AACSB, one of the oldest serving accrediting body for business schools, has conferred the accreditation on ISB after about four years of rigorous review. "We are very proud to get the accreditation, which will help us to attract more...

NEW DELHI: The government would soon make it mandatory for all laboratories and hospitals in the country to seek accreditation from it, a move that would help in tightening screws on unscrupulous laboratories, Union minister for health and family welfare C P Thakur said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: The Press Information Bureau has started issuing new electronic press accreditation card from this week onwards. According to a press release issued here on Tuesday, the card will replace older PIB press card and would have a validity of two years (till December 2009). The step would go a long way in avoiding the annual exercise of renewal for all nationally accredited journalists. Principal DG (Media and Communication) Deepak Sandhu delivered...

Rankings are a comparison of business schools that is organised by journalists. Accreditation is a process of quality assessment that is conducted by peers under the supervision of professional associations. Rankings will only tell you which business schools a magazine or newspaper thinks is number 1, number 2, number 3, etc., but accreditation will tell you that a business school meets specific international standards. In terms of measures of quality, accreditation is much more important...

AHMEDABAD: ALL is not lost for over 3.25 lakh engineers who graduate each year from the country. Though India has lost out on the much-sought-after Washington Accord (WA), which would have ensured free movement of engineers to any member country, the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has now decided to speed up accreditation activity in line with the standards followed by the WA signatory countries, so as to be a part of the accord by June '07. The board has...

NEW DELHI: Starting early next year, the government is planning to make quality accreditation mandatory for new clinical trials in the country. "Pharma companies or sponsors keen to conduct new clinical trials in India would have to seek accreditation from the Quality Council of India (QCI) for their sites, ethics committee and investigators before they apply for the drug regulator's clearance," said a government official aware of the proposal....

NEW DELHI: The Forward Markets Commission (FMC) has come out with uniform norms for giving accreditation to warehouse services providers by commodity exchanges, a step to inspire confidence among market participants. This will also strengthen warehouse facilities in the commodity futures market. It assumes significance in the backdrop of Rs 5,600-crore payment scam at NSEL which exposed the poor warehousing monitoring. FMC has directed the...

NEW DELHI: Leading basmati rice company Best Foods is aiming to double its turnover at Rs 5,000 crore in the next three years on rising demand of grains in domestic and overseas markets. "We are targeting 30 per cent growth this fiscal and we want to double our turnover at about Rs 5,000 crore by 2016-17 fiscal," Best Foods CEO Aayushman Gupta told reporters today while announcing accreditation to its rice by Indian Culinary Forum, an association of professional...

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that National Cricket Performance Centre at Loughborough University has been accredited as a testing centre for suspected illegal bowling actions. Loughborough now joins Cardiff Metropolitan University , Cricket Australia's National Cricket Centre in Brisbane and the Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai which were all announced earlier this month. All ICC-accredited facilities were...

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI (PTI): Acoustics India, a Trichirappalli based Engineering Company, is targeting the European market after it received accreditation for the compliance of five international standards, a senior company executive said here. The accreditation encompasses quality management, environmental care, occupational health and safety for the employees, energy conservation and information security management, N P Sukumar, Managing Director, ...

NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of getting the accreditation for its Delhi centre, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has accorded national accreditation to NIS Sparta for its broker training programmes. "According to this accreditation, NIS will be the first insurance training company to offer training programmes from five location covering all metros," the company said. The first institution to introduce national-level broker insurance training, NIS...

CHENNAI: United Nations has accredited the Netherlands-based Det Norske Veritas (DNV) to validate projects in developing countries, which are targeted at reducing green house gas emissions. Such projects, upon validation, would become eligible to receive funds from the developed nations. C Kumaraswamy, Green House expert and Product Manager, DNV, Bangalore, said at a press conference here today that the company was the first to get the accreditation from UN's Climate Change panel.

NEW DELHI: Cambridge English Language Assessment , a not for profit English language assessment department of the University of Cambridge which conducts individual assessments, has signed new Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Hindustan University, Indian Council for Assessment and Accreditation ( ICAA ) , Vignan University in Andhra Pradesh and BS Abdur Rehman University in Tamil Nadu. The MoUs were signed at the Cambridge India partnership summit...

NEW DELHI: To strengthen warehousing facilities in the commodity futures market, regulator Forward Markets Commission (FMC) has come out with uniform norms for the accreditation of warehousing service providers. The draft rules, on which public comments have been sought by September 15, come in the wake of Rs 5,600 crore payment scam at the National Spot Exchange Ltd ( NSEL ) that surfaced in July last year,...